Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
 But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
 Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
 Over luxury's disappointment so he walks over and he's trying
 To sympathise with her, but he thinks that he should warn her
 That the Third World is just around the corner
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 In the Soviet Union, a scientist is blinded
 By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
 That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
 At the first hurdle
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 In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
 Is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilt beer
 And someone asking questions and basking in the light
 Of the 15 fame-filled minutes of the fanzine writer
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 Mixing pop and politics, he asks me, what the use is?
 I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
 While looking down the corridor out to where the van is waiting
 I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards
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 Jumbo sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted
 Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
 You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers
 While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
 One leap forward, two leaps back
 Will politics get me the sack?
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 Well, here comes the future and you can't run from it
 If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
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 It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
 From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
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 If no one seems to understand
 You, start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
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 In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
 But this is reality so give me some room
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 So join the struggle while you may
 The Revolution is just a T-shirt away
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